Improved can for preserving and transporting milk



representsthe bottom of the can UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- MosEs M. CLARK, OEMONROE, NEW YonK.

iMPaovED CAN FoRPREsEmV/ING ANDTRANSPORTTNG MILK.

Specification forming part o f Letters Patent No. 46,640, dated March 7, 1865.

I To all 10710711, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MOSES M. CLARK, oi"k Monroe, Orange county, and State of New York, haveinvented anew and nsei'nl Method g of Preserving Milk in Cans; that the title to 2 such cans as given hyme is Glarks Milkl Preserver, and I do hereby declare that the l following is aAfullgclear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, 5 reference being had to the annexed drawings, zv making a part of this specification. I i

Figure 1 represents the cover of the can, and the space shown on the design of such l cover is to be filled in with p'nlveri'zed charcoal and closed up, as shown upon the drawf; ings. Fig. 2 represents the can in its sectional' form, there heilig an inner and outer can or Q lining, and lthe space between them beingi filled in with pnlverized charcoal. Fig. 3 as open, the l design, however, heilig, as soon as the can is filled in with pnlverized charcoal, to close-up. the said bottom in a secure andpermanent manner. Fig. `4 represents the can as completely finished.

The design of the said invention is to manufacture cans for milk, to be filled in all around with pulverized charcoal, as shown on the said drawings.

. The invention I claim is The lling in ot' milk-cans between the inner and outer covers with pnlverizcd charcoal, as a means of preserving milk, in such a manner as to protect the milk from heat.

New York, February 7 1865.

MOSES M. CLARK.

Witnesses:

DAVID MCADAM. M. E. CLARK. 

